Hello, I'm
Building AI that is safe, interpretable, and human-centered.
I'm a researcher and engineer working at the intersection of AI safety, computer vision, and privacy-preserving machine learning. Currently CTO at SAFE AI, I've spent over a decade building systems — from food delivery backends to nanophotonic inverse design models — and I believe the next decade should be defined by AI we can actually trust.
Seoul, South Korea
Ph.D. & B.S. Electrical Engineering, Korea University
2012 — Present · SW Engineering → AI Research & Ph.D. → Deep-tech Founder & CTO
SAFE AI, Seoul
Leading Vision AI & AI Safety research as CTO / Principal Investigator · 10 government R&D programs · enterprise AI delivery
Desilo, Seoul
Privacy-preserving ML — homomorphic encryption (FHE) & multi-party computation (MPC)
Kakao Corp., Seongnam
Backend development for Kakao Pay payment services
Woowa Bros. (Baemin)
Alternative military service — Autobrain → SureM → Woowa Bros.; back-end API, payment / PG servers, MSA migration
Korea University
Advisor: Prof. Junhee Seok
During Ph.D.
Korea University
Best Graduation Thesis Award (Software), 2016
Kyunggi High School
Inverse design of nanophotonic devices using GANs
Display AI convergence talent training
EM wave simulation acceleration via deep learning
Indoor semantic segmentation app using DeepLabV3 + MobileNetV2
Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just a friendly hello.